The procedure of designing the composition of concrete with the method of three equations demands to accept the assumptions regarding the consistence of concrete mixture. For the assumed consistency the water demand of aggregates and water demand of concrete is specified. In case of natural aggregates (NCA) the formulas, among others, of Sterne's of Bolomey's are used conditioning the water demand of aggregates from its granulation, kind and consistence of concrete mixture. There is lack of such dependencies in case of water demand of recycled aggregates (RCA). In such case there remains the empirical determination of the water demand, which in practice disqualifies the usefulness of the method of three equations to specify the concrete composition of on RCA aggregates. A way to solve this problem is looking for the relations between RCA water demand and its other qualities which are easy to specify in laboratory conditions in short time. The quality which gives such a chance to achieve this relation is the aggregates resistance to crushing whose measure is crushing indicator. This paper has made an attempt at specifying the manner of empirical definition of RCA water demand.
The problem of recycling of construction wastes is important and at the same time difficult to deal with. One of the possible ways of using the construction wastes coming from the demolition of concrete constructions is to re-use them in the production of construction concretes as recycled concrete aggregates RCA. Determining the concrete composition with the use of RCA demands conditioning its different from the natural aggregates NA physical and mechanical properties. In the procedure of projecting the concrete composition with three equations theory the assumption of consistency class of concrete mixture is demanded. Having accepted it, the water demand of aggregates and cement is determined. In case of natural aggregates NA the formulas of Sterne's and Bolomey's are used in which aggregates water demand is conditioned from its kind and granulation and also from concrete mixture consistency. In case of RCA, there is lack of such data and each time it is necessary to determine the water demand empirically after performing a trial batch. There also exists a necessity to determine the relation between RCA water demand and its other properties which are easy to be determined in laboratory conditions and in short time. Such a property can be measured with the crushing rate wrm resistance of aggregates to crushing. Crushing rate wrm was used to qualify the recycled aggregates from recycling with the point of their potential of being re-used in constructive concrete production. It was determined a relation between crushing rate wrmand the coefficient ARCA taking place in the modified strength equation of Bolomey and thus it became possible to use the method of three equations to project the concrete composition on recycled aggregates.
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